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- Feb 17, 2003
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- ........................................EX-Sadowsky Guitars Builder..........................................................
- Feb 17, 2003
- 1,006
- 281
- Disclosures
- ........................................EX-Sadowsky Guitars Builder..........................................................
The original picture posted was horizontal.
I thought it looked good that way, but, the verticle shows off the sleek lines better and just how perfectly the guys nailed the contours of the body and the scratchgaurd etc...
KILLER BASS!
Yeah...When I first posted it through Photobucket it was, but I flipped it cause It downsized and distorted it.
Rob
I wouldn't want to speak for Roger, but I think that's pretty unlikely since the Metro basses are supposed to be "option free" versions of the NYC's and the Will Lee is kinda like the ultimate optioned up NYC! But, you never know!
THat time again already, here are my two Sadowskys:
Mark, that spalted top is killing me! Just gorgeous. So many basses to admire, so little time.
Here are my single coils:
This is darn near exactly what I want to order. I want the PJ config tho. Beautiful color - my favorite.
THat time again already, here are my two Sadowskys:
I don't like the way that bloke is eyeing your bass up . . .
Sadowsky pickups
Nordstrand pickups
Well, they both have one "o" and one "a", they also have the letters in the word "pickups" in common and share "s", "d". However the Sadowsky's lack the "n" and the "r" that is quite popular in the Nordys.
Interesting... interesting... so how do they differ in tone when installed in a Sadowsky bass?
My understanding is that when Sadowsky uses Nordstrand pickups, they are slightly different from the "off the shelf" Nordstrands that Carey sells. They also have the word "Sadowsky" engraved into the pickup covers. An exception is my PJ4 bass which has a Nordstrand NP4 and a NJ4SE in the bridge which are off the shelf from the Sadowsky factory. That's a convoluted way of saying that the nordstrand pickups used by Sadowsky are generaly speaking "sadowsky'ised" in a similar way that the Seymour Duncans and the Dimarzio pickups that Roger uses are.
Generally speaking the Nordstrand Big Singles have more of a soap-bar'ish sound to them compared to a "small" single coil pickup. They have a pronounced midrange but are generally more polite. They also have a "bigger" sound overall. Personally I like them as I sometimes find the regular single coil tone to be a bit thin, but they are not for everyone. Ken Jung has the opposite taste (FWIW). I would say get teh big singles if you want a jazz style bass with a bigger fatter jazz style tone, but can live without the growly midrange that a traditional single coil J has. If you need that traditional jazz sound, you need to get the single coils and forgo any ideas about the nordstrand big pickups.
OTOH if you are talking about one of the modern basses, IMO the Nordstrands sounded more polite than the Sadowsky soaps which are very agressive. In that bass I would use the Nordstrand not to "fatten" up the sound, but to make it more mellow (while still being the same "big" soapbar tone).
Very cool thanks a lot. I'm just trying to put together my next bass and I'm pretty sure
it's going to be a 20 fret NYC vintage 5 string. I've always liked the looks of the
Nordstrands but didn't know how they sounded compared to the stock Sadowsky pickups.
I would be looking for a bigger fuller jazz sound so it looks like the Nords will be perfect.
Thanks again ML.
it's going to be a 20 fret NYC vintage 5 string. I've always liked the looks of the
Nordstrands but didn't know how they sounded compared to the stock Sadowsky pickups.
I would be looking for a bigger fuller jazz sound so it looks like the Nords will be perfect.
Thanks again ML.
+1 to all the above. The Big Singles are a great way to get a smoother, fatter, more modern tone in the Sadowsky vintage/standard basses while still kind of keeping the J bass look, and are also a great way to 'soften up' the uber modern and at the same time aggressive tone of the Sadowsky Modern basses loaded with the stock Sadowsky soap bars. I would really like to check out an ash/maple Modern with the Big Singles sometime.
Of course, the stock HC J pickups have really become the 'standard' Sadowsky tone, since the vast majority of vintage and standard Sadowsky's ship with them installed. Clean, big, crisp and articulate. IMO, if you want to move the vintage/standard Sadowsky's to a bit more of what many of us call a '60's vibe', the Nordstrand single coil J's are great in an alder/RW vintage/standard. Or, if you want to move the Sadowsky J bass to a more aggressive, grindy tone that many of us loosely call a 70's type tone, the Sadowsky singles in an ash/maple vintage/standard just kill.
IMO and IME!!!!
Roger offers some great options to move the tone of his basses around a bit but still keep the general 'Sadowsky sound'.
